Dolores M. Terrell was issued a concealed weapons license in September 1994. However, in 1972 Terrell had been committed for about six months to Buffalo State Hospital, a mental institution. Her concealed weapons license was revoked in November 1995 because she failed to provide documentation of her mental stability for a period of five years since her release.

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